On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 12:22 PM Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:38 AM Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > 4. by default git tends to accumulate history, which can eat up disk > > space. I imagine this could be automatically trimmed if users wanted, > > though during syncing it would at least need to store all the commits > > between the last fetched and next-fetched, and that means fetching > > things that might have been subsequently removed/changed > > This is why I have not switched to git. I have /usr/portage on a > separate 1GB partition (with distfiles and packages stored elsewhere). > The ebuild tree is 600MB with rsync and cannot fit on the partition > with git. >
git clone https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git . --depth 1 ... du -sh . 662M . So, with a shallow clone it seems comparable. The issue is getting git to constantly trim, probably along the lines of: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34829535 -- Rich
